WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.600 Let's have another glass of Lipton iced tea. 00:13.600 --> 00:20.760 Lipton tea, the brisk tea, delicious Lipton soups and tempting frosty desserts present 00:20.760 --> 00:24.320 Arthur Godfrey's talent show. 00:24.320 --> 00:29.960 Everything brightens up with brisk Lipton iced tea. 00:29.960 --> 00:34.800 So refreshing and extra delicious thanks to Lipton's new flow through tea bag. 00:34.800 --> 00:37.000 It lets water go through as well as around. 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 Gives you brisk flavor that won't fade even when iced. 00:40.000 --> 00:45.720 Get Lipton's new flow through tea bags. 00:45.720 --> 00:59.720 And now, here's that man himself, Arthur Godfrey. 00:59.720 --> 01:05.720 Hi. 01:05.720 --> 01:18.400 Gee, it's nice to see you all again. 01:18.400 --> 01:24.240 This is the kind of weather we have here in New York today and yesterday that we left 01:24.240 --> 01:27.440 behind us in Wyoming, wasn't it, huh? 01:27.440 --> 01:32.920 This is the kind of weather they have all the time except today. 01:32.920 --> 01:37.520 I looked on the weather map and it's pew out there today. 01:37.520 --> 01:40.600 But boy, it's gorgeous here tonight in New York. 01:40.600 --> 01:44.680 And what I would like to know is what happened to everybody. 01:44.680 --> 01:47.820 I see a few came here. 01:47.820 --> 01:49.920 But the streets are deserted. 01:49.920 --> 01:52.960 Oh, I never saw anything so wonderful. 01:52.960 --> 01:55.840 I came across town in 40 minutes tonight. 01:55.840 --> 01:59.320 It's impossible. 01:59.320 --> 02:01.920 Usually it takes an hour and a half. 02:01.920 --> 02:05.000 No, seriously, there's no traffic out there at all. 02:05.000 --> 02:09.320 I came over from the house in about 10 minutes tonight. 02:09.320 --> 02:10.320 Impossible. 02:10.320 --> 02:11.320 Marvelous. 02:11.320 --> 02:15.240 Where'd everybody go? 02:15.240 --> 02:19.120 You should know these things. 02:19.120 --> 02:23.600 Hey, you have added a few faces? 02:23.600 --> 02:25.080 Vacation, Arthur. 02:25.080 --> 02:27.840 Oh, vacations. 02:27.840 --> 02:30.560 I'm glad our lovely little harpist is still with us. 02:30.560 --> 02:35.960 There's a little gal getting ready for heaven. 02:35.960 --> 02:39.120 She won't have to do a thing, won't have to pass any exams. 02:39.120 --> 02:41.120 She's all ready to go. 02:41.120 --> 02:45.880 Well, welcome, all paid up members of the 802, huh? 02:45.880 --> 02:47.880 Sirs and brethren. 02:47.880 --> 02:51.200 All right, let's see who we have here. 02:51.200 --> 02:56.640 If I'm not mistaken, these are some more folks from the West Coast, aren't they? 02:56.640 --> 02:57.640 No? 02:57.640 --> 02:58.760 Some from here? 02:58.760 --> 02:59.760 Let's find out. 02:59.760 --> 03:00.760 I don't know. 03:00.760 --> 03:05.200 We'll meet the first one who is named Sanford Bomstein. 03:05.200 --> 03:06.200 Is that right? 03:06.200 --> 03:07.200 Sanford Bomstein? 03:07.200 --> 03:12.800 Is it that? 03:12.800 --> 03:15.200 From whence cometh you, Mr. Bomstein? 03:15.200 --> 03:16.800 Did I say it right? 03:16.800 --> 03:17.800 Washington, D.C. 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 Washington, huh? 03:18.800 --> 03:19.800 What do you do there? 03:19.800 --> 03:25.080 I'm in the real estate department of the Green Hotels. 03:25.080 --> 03:26.080 The Green Hotels? 03:26.080 --> 03:27.080 Yes, sir. 03:27.080 --> 03:28.080 Green Hotels. 03:28.080 --> 03:30.640 What hotels do they have in Washington? 03:30.640 --> 03:33.760 They have a Hotel Ebbett at 1008th Street. 03:33.760 --> 03:34.760 Ah, Ebbett. 03:34.760 --> 03:37.000 That's one of the oldest hotels in America. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.960 Yes, they're going to do it over very shortly. 03:40.960 --> 03:41.960 Are they? 03:41.960 --> 03:45.120 They're not going to spoil that wonderful old room, are they? 03:45.120 --> 03:46.120 The old Ebbett. 03:46.120 --> 03:48.040 You're talking about the old Ebbett? 03:48.040 --> 03:50.200 Yes, the Ebbett at H10th and H Street. 03:50.200 --> 03:53.240 Yes, that's the one where Abraham Lincoln used to go and everybody. 03:53.240 --> 04:02.360 Well, that's a little before my time, Mr. Bomstein. 04:02.360 --> 04:03.360 Maybe I remember. 04:03.360 --> 04:06.360 I don't know. 04:06.360 --> 04:07.920 So anyhow, business good? 04:07.920 --> 04:09.640 Business is very good. 04:09.640 --> 04:10.640 Good. 04:10.640 --> 04:12.880 What do you do for a hobby? 04:12.880 --> 04:15.400 Well, flying is my hobby. 04:15.400 --> 04:16.400 Do you like to fly? 04:16.400 --> 04:17.400 Do you get a license? 04:17.400 --> 04:19.280 I have a private license. 04:19.280 --> 04:20.280 Good for you. 04:20.280 --> 04:21.280 So have I. 04:21.280 --> 04:27.960 I would like to say that I owe you a vote of thanks for helping me get interested in 04:27.960 --> 04:28.960 flying. 04:28.960 --> 04:36.720 Many years ago, you had a program with a replica of a stick and two rudders. 04:36.720 --> 04:43.180 And I sat in my home and watched you and it appeared so simple that I went down and filed 04:43.180 --> 04:45.160 under the GI Bill to learn to fly. 04:45.160 --> 04:46.160 Well, good for you. 04:46.160 --> 04:47.880 Where did you take your lessons? 04:47.880 --> 04:49.880 At Hyde Field in Clinton, Maryland. 04:49.880 --> 04:50.880 Hyde Field. 04:50.880 --> 04:53.480 Well, that's Arthur Hyde's place. 04:53.480 --> 04:54.480 Yes, yes. 04:54.480 --> 04:57.960 I bought that field that we have in Leesburg from him. 04:57.960 --> 04:58.960 He's a great guy. 04:58.960 --> 04:59.960 Did he teach you to fly? 04:59.960 --> 05:03.800 No, one of his instructors, Chris Martin. 05:03.800 --> 05:05.200 How many hours you got now? 05:05.200 --> 05:10.120 Well, I stopped logging at 300, which isn't too many. 05:10.120 --> 05:11.120 That's pretty good now. 05:11.120 --> 05:12.120 That's all right. 05:12.120 --> 05:14.480 You got to 300 and since then you average what? 05:14.480 --> 05:16.120 50 a year maybe? 05:16.120 --> 05:17.120 I'm pretty good at that now. 05:17.120 --> 05:18.120 That's okay. 05:18.120 --> 05:19.120 That'll keep you going. 05:19.120 --> 05:20.400 And what do you fly? 05:20.400 --> 05:21.400 What kind of an airplane? 05:21.400 --> 05:28.920 Well, I owned a Piper Clipper and I sold it and I've been flying a Tri-Pacer at Congressional. 05:28.920 --> 05:31.360 It's a nice little airplane. 05:31.360 --> 05:34.280 Yes, it takes all the, corrects all your errors. 05:34.280 --> 05:35.280 That's right. 05:35.280 --> 05:36.280 It takes all the skill out. 05:36.280 --> 05:38.560 It forgives all your mistakes, doesn't it? 05:38.560 --> 05:41.760 All right, so long as you fly that thing in good weather, you're all right. 05:41.760 --> 05:43.240 So you get an instrument ready. 05:43.240 --> 05:44.800 It's a fine airplane. 05:44.800 --> 05:49.440 Well, I'm glad if I had a little something to do with your flying. 05:49.440 --> 05:50.440 That's great. 05:50.440 --> 05:52.880 I think you've done a lot for private flying. 05:52.880 --> 05:58.080 Don't you think that that's really something to get up there in that little thing and fly 05:58.080 --> 05:59.080 around the country? 05:59.080 --> 06:00.080 I do. 06:00.080 --> 06:04.640 I think if more people did it, why they'd realize how close they are to the man upstairs. 06:04.640 --> 06:05.640 That's right. 06:05.640 --> 06:06.640 That's right. 06:06.640 --> 06:07.640 That's right. 06:07.640 --> 06:15.760 I'd give you a laugh in one way, but in another, just quickly let me tell you, about two weeks 06:15.760 --> 06:27.440 ago I was in Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Air National Guard, the colonel in charge, Lord 06:27.440 --> 06:32.180 help me I've forgotten his name, wonderful guy, took me up in an F-89. 06:32.180 --> 06:33.180 You know what that is? 06:33.180 --> 06:39.920 A twin jet interceptor, went to 40,000 feet in so little time, I'm not permitted to tell 06:39.920 --> 06:40.920 you how fast. 06:40.920 --> 06:46.200 And we got up there, we're cruising around amongst the clouds up there at 40,000 feet. 06:46.200 --> 06:52.320 And I felt like that wonderful boy, you remember the wrote the poem, the British fighter and 06:52.320 --> 06:58.640 his last lines were, and I put out my hand and I touched the face of God. 06:58.640 --> 06:59.640 You remember? 06:59.640 --> 07:05.920 Well, that's what it's like to be up there and I'm so glad you got onto it Sanford. 07:05.920 --> 07:07.580 Tell me now whom you brought. 07:07.580 --> 07:13.160 I brought a most unusual group, the Bluegrass Champs from Washington, DC. 07:13.160 --> 07:20.720 It's composed of Jimmy Case, rhythm guitar player, he's the leader of the band and Scotty 07:20.720 --> 07:31.200 Stoneman, a champion fiddler and Donna Stoneman, queen of the mandolin and Jimmy Stoneman, 07:31.200 --> 07:32.200 hot lick bass player. 07:32.200 --> 07:33.760 They're all the same family. 07:33.760 --> 07:38.640 They're three of a musical family of 13 children. 07:38.640 --> 07:39.880 My, my. 07:39.880 --> 07:40.880 And who else? 07:40.880 --> 07:45.240 And Porter Church, a Tennessee banjo player. 07:45.240 --> 07:47.900 Well, they've been together how long? 07:47.900 --> 07:48.900 About two years. 07:48.900 --> 07:49.900 Two years. 07:49.900 --> 07:51.640 Two years in Washington, DC. 07:51.640 --> 07:53.600 They've appeared professionally where? 07:53.600 --> 08:05.200 28 weeks at Constitution Hall at the Ozarks Club in downtown Washington on radio with 08:05.200 --> 08:14.480 WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, WARL in Arlington, Virginia, at Si Boominthal Station. 08:14.480 --> 08:21.880 And they're currently appearing from the famous club, 1215 New York Avenue in downtown Washington 08:21.880 --> 08:27.920 with a live program every other Wednesday night on WEAM. 08:27.920 --> 08:28.920 WEAM. 08:28.920 --> 08:29.920 WEAM. 08:29.920 --> 08:32.640 Well, Sanford Baumstien, it's nice to meet you, sir. 08:32.640 --> 08:33.640 Keep your nose down now. 08:33.640 --> 08:34.640 Good luck to you. 08:34.640 --> 08:35.640 Thank you. 08:35.640 --> 08:44.920 And here in the Lifting Spotlight are the Bluegrass Champs. 08:44.920 --> 09:07.520 And here in the Lifting Spotlight are the Bluegrass Champs. 09:07.520 --> 09:20.560 Well, listen here, Sal, I know you're run down stocking in a worn-out fuse. 09:20.560 --> 09:23.560 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 09:23.560 --> 09:27.040 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog, or I won't be your man at all. 09:27.040 --> 09:42.940 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 09:42.940 --> 09:46.120 Down in a while when I'm sitting on a log, my finger on a trigger, ma on the hog. 09:46.120 --> 09:47.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 09:47.120 --> 09:52.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog, or I won't be your man at all. 09:52.120 --> 09:59.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 09:59.120 --> 10:11.120 Well, I pulled a trigger and the shot went low, and it flew right over into Mexico. 10:11.120 --> 10:12.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 10:12.120 --> 10:17.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog, or I won't be your man at all. 10:17.120 --> 10:18.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 10:18.120 --> 10:23.120 Well, let me hear you, saw the dog. 10:23.120 --> 10:38.120 Boy, that little gal, Donna Stoneman. 10:38.120 --> 10:46.120 Isn't she the doll, though, huh? 10:46.120 --> 10:49.120 Donna and her two brothers in there, Scotty and Jimmy. 10:49.120 --> 10:52.120 Unless one's her father, I don't know. 10:52.120 --> 10:55.120 Porter Church and Jimmy Case. 10:55.120 --> 11:00.120 You know those outfits put the ones to shame we had in Cheyenne, don't they, huh? 11:00.120 --> 11:01.120 Beautiful things. 11:01.120 --> 11:03.120 The bluegrass champs, they were. 11:03.120 --> 11:08.120 Now, let's see what Lipton has in the mind tonight. 11:08.120 --> 11:17.120 Do you ever find yourself in a summer slump? 11:17.120 --> 11:22.120 Do you ever get the summer complain? 11:22.120 --> 11:28.120 Used to call it that down home in Virginia, in berry time in Virginia. 11:28.120 --> 11:35.120 You always get the summer complaints, terrible. 11:35.120 --> 11:38.120 When you get feeling, of course, this kind of weather, you don't feel like this. 11:38.120 --> 11:40.120 It feels so good today. 11:40.120 --> 11:49.120 But when it's hot, muggy and pew, what you need is something to pick you up, make you feel good. 11:49.120 --> 11:54.120 I want you to get on the T wagon. 11:54.120 --> 12:02.120 You know, these guys, all my pilot friends in the air now, when I go flying around the country, 12:02.120 --> 12:08.120 and some of them hear me calling in to the radio stations and so forth, reporting my position, 12:08.120 --> 12:15.120 you'll hear them open up the microphone and say, how's the old tea bag? 12:15.120 --> 12:19.120 Makes me feel so good. 12:19.120 --> 12:21.120 The old tea bag, that's me. 12:21.120 --> 12:26.120 This was made, this was made with tea bags, Lipton tea bags. 12:26.120 --> 12:30.120 This is iced Lipton tea. 12:30.120 --> 12:37.120 You can be feeling so lousy, so far down. 12:37.120 --> 12:42.120 Somebody hands you a glass of Lipton iced tea and you think, well. 12:42.120 --> 12:47.120 So you take a little sip. 12:47.120 --> 12:53.120 It lifts you right up, right away. 12:53.120 --> 12:55.120 You feel like you have one of those things on. 12:55.120 --> 13:01.120 You just feel wonderful, right away. 13:01.120 --> 13:03.120 It's refreshing, brisk flavor. 13:03.120 --> 13:05.120 No other tea has got it. 13:05.120 --> 13:08.120 No calories either. 13:08.120 --> 13:12.120 Of course, you put sugar in, you add a few calories, but not many. 13:12.120 --> 13:15.120 What is it, 20 calories a teaspoon full or something? 13:15.120 --> 13:17.120 Not very much. 13:17.120 --> 13:21.120 I like it without sugar in it, just a little slice of lemon. 13:21.120 --> 13:29.120 It's very good, makes you feel good. 13:29.120 --> 13:38.120 It'll keep you up there too. 13:38.120 --> 13:50.120 I've been afraid of this for 30 years. 13:50.120 --> 13:58.120 Went down the wrong lane. 13:58.120 --> 14:02.120 That's so much better, doctor. 14:02.120 --> 14:06.120 Next talent scout, make sure now it's Lipton tea. 14:06.120 --> 14:09.120 Next talent scout, Lee Caputi, right? 14:09.120 --> 14:16.120 Caputi? 14:16.120 --> 14:17.120 Did I pronounce that right? 14:17.120 --> 14:19.120 Lee Caputi? 14:19.120 --> 14:20.120 Caputi, Italiano? 14:20.120 --> 14:21.120 That's right. 14:21.120 --> 14:23.120 Where do you come from? 14:23.120 --> 14:24.120 I come from Newport, Rhode Island. 14:24.120 --> 14:28.120 Newport, Rhode Island. 14:28.120 --> 14:31.120 That is a lovely, lovely place. 14:31.120 --> 14:32.120 Yes, it is. 14:32.120 --> 14:35.120 I was there many, many years ago when I was a kid in the Navy. 14:35.120 --> 14:37.120 Nice place. 14:37.120 --> 14:39.120 What do you do for a living? 14:39.120 --> 14:41.120 Well, I'm a musician. 14:41.120 --> 14:44.120 I graduated from Juilliard School of Music. 14:44.120 --> 14:45.120 I'm a pianist. 14:45.120 --> 14:46.120 A pianist. 14:46.120 --> 14:49.120 And who is your talent tonight? 14:49.120 --> 14:51.120 His name is Gino Sambuco. 14:51.120 --> 14:54.120 He's a young violinist from West Hartford, Connecticut. 14:54.120 --> 14:55.120 Tell me about him. 14:55.120 --> 14:56.120 All about him? 14:56.120 --> 14:58.120 Okay. 14:58.120 --> 15:02.120 He graduated from Juilliard where he studied with Mr. Ronald Murat. 15:02.120 --> 15:03.120 He studied there under scholarship. 15:03.120 --> 15:04.120 That's where you met him. 15:04.120 --> 15:05.120 Yes. 15:05.120 --> 15:09.120 And he just recently returned from a tour of South America with the New Orleans Symphony, 15:09.120 --> 15:12.120 with which he's been associated for the last three years. 15:12.120 --> 15:14.120 And how old a young man is he? 15:14.120 --> 15:15.120 He's 24. 15:15.120 --> 15:16.120 I see. 15:16.120 --> 15:18.120 How did he come by this scholarship? 15:18.120 --> 15:23.120 Well, you take entrance auditions to get into the school, and you may take scholarship 15:23.120 --> 15:25.120 auditions as well as the regular auditions. 15:25.120 --> 15:28.120 Oh, and if you show sufficient talent, then they'll take you on. 15:28.120 --> 15:29.120 Oh, that's wonderful. 15:29.120 --> 15:30.120 They get scholarship. 15:30.120 --> 15:31.120 Yes. 15:31.120 --> 15:32.120 All right. 15:32.120 --> 15:35.120 And he has been playing with the New Orleans Philharmonic for how long? 15:35.120 --> 15:36.120 Three years. 15:36.120 --> 15:37.120 Three years. 15:37.120 --> 15:40.120 A graduate of Juilliard, studied since when? 15:40.120 --> 15:41.120 How long? 15:41.120 --> 15:43.120 Oh, since he was about eight. 15:43.120 --> 15:44.120 Eight years old. 15:44.120 --> 15:46.120 Well, that sounds like he's qualified all right. 15:46.120 --> 15:47.120 Thank you. 15:47.120 --> 15:49.120 Thank you ever so much. 15:49.120 --> 15:51.120 Let's put him in the Lipton spotlight then. 15:51.120 --> 16:20.120 Gino Sambuco. 16:20.120 --> 16:47.120 Thank you. 16:47.120 --> 17:06.120 Thank you. 17:06.120 --> 17:25.120 Thank you. 17:25.120 --> 17:44.120 Thank you. 17:44.120 --> 18:03.120 Thank you. 18:03.120 --> 18:22.120 Thank you. 18:22.120 --> 18:41.120 Thank you. 18:41.120 --> 19:07.120 Thank you. 19:07.120 --> 19:26.120 Thank you. 19:26.120 --> 19:41.120 Thank you. 19:41.120 --> 19:56.120 Thank you. 19:56.120 --> 20:11.120 Thank you. 20:11.120 --> 20:26.120 Thank you. 20:26.120 --> 20:41.120 Thank you. 20:41.120 --> 20:56.120 Thank you. 20:56.120 --> 21:11.120 Thank you. 21:11.120 --> 21:26.120 Thank you. 21:26.120 --> 21:39.120 Thank you. 21:39.120 --> 21:54.120 Thank you. 21:54.120 --> 22:09.120 Thank you. 22:09.120 --> 22:22.120 Thank you. 22:22.120 --> 22:47.120 Thank you. 22:47.120 --> 23:04.120 Thank you. 23:04.120 --> 23:15.120 Thank you. 23:15.120 --> 23:40.120 Thank you. 23:40.120 --> 24:05.120 Thank you. 24:05.120 --> 24:25.120 Thank you. 24:25.120 --> 24:40.120 Thank you. 24:40.120 --> 24:55.120 Thank you. 24:55.120 --> 25:10.120 Thank you. 25:10.120 --> 25:25.120 Thank you. 25:25.120 --> 25:40.120 Thank you. 25:40.120 --> 25:55.120 Thank you. 25:55.120 --> 26:10.120 Thank you. 26:10.120 --> 26:25.120 Thank you. 26:25.120 --> 26:40.120 Thank you. 26:40.120 --> 26:55.120 Thank you. 26:55.120 --> 27:10.120 Thank you. 27:10.120 --> 27:25.120 Thank you. 27:25.120 --> 27:40.120 Thank you. 27:40.120 --> 27:55.120 Thank you. 27:55.120 --> 28:10.120 Thank you. 28:10.120 --> 28:25.120 Thank you. 28:25.120 --> 28:38.120 Thank you. 28:38.120 --> 28:48.120 Thank you. 28:48.120 --> 28:58.120 Thank you. 28:58.120 --> 29:09.120 Thank you. 29:09.120 --> 29:14.000 That's a nice bunch of kids. Thanks ever so much, folks.